After trialing the service in Ireland and Canada last month, Spotify has officially launched its Audiobooks+ service in the US, Europe, Australia and elsewhere. An add-on available to Spotify Premium members, as well as individual users on Family and Duo plans, it adds an extra 15 hours of listening on top of the 15 hours … Read more
At start of December, Google DeepMind released Genie 2. The Genie family of AI systems are what are known as world models. They’re capable of generating images as the user — either a human or, more likely, an automated AI agent — moves through the world the software is simulating. The resulting video of the … Read more
They might be nearly three years old at this point, but Apple’s second-generation AirPods Pro remain some of the most popular wireless earbuds around for a reason, and right now they’re down to $169 on Amazon. That’s a not-insignificant 32 percent off the usual $249 price of the noise-canceling in-ears. Apple’s flagship AirPods were $100 … Read more
As digital currencies continue to evolve, their influence on global financial markets is becoming increasingly evident. From central banks to private enterprises, stakeholders are exploring new ways to integrate these technologies into everyday transactions. This shift is prompting fresh conversations about security, regulation, and the future of money in a rapidly digitizing world. The Expanding… … Read more
An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease is causing concern in New York City. An outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease is causing concern in New York City.
Apple has released the beta version of Apple Music version 5.0 for Android, and as 9to5Google reports, it doesn’t feature a Liquid Glass redesign like its counterpart for iOS 26. Liquid Glass is what Apple calls its new visual language, so it’s not quite clear whether the Android iteration of the app will ever get … Read more
Five years since the launch of PlayStation 5 and, naturally, it’s time to ruminate on what’s next. In a YouTube video from Moore’s Law is Dead, the leaker shares what they believe is extensive information on the PlayStation 6’s possible specs, starting price and release timing. Caveat: Moore’s Law is Dead adds in the video … Read more
Web crawlers deployed by Perplexity to scrape websites are allegedly skirting restrictions, according to a new report from Cloudflare. Specifically, the report claims that the company’s bots appear to be “stealth crawling” sites by disguising their identity to get around robots.txt files and firewalls. Robots.txt is a simple file websites host that lets web crawlers … Read more
The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn’t a complete journey. NASA said today that its teams lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch several months prior. The NASA satellite was part of the IM-2 mission by Intuitive Machines, which took off from a SpaceX Falcon … Read more
Four years after Amazon’s acquisition of podcast network Wondery, the tech giant is dismantling its $300 million purchase and reorganizing various audio properties into separate teams at the company. As first reported by Bloomberg, this reorg will see the studio lose about 110 employees, and CEO Jen Sargent is departing the company. Amazon told Bloomberg … Read more